Journal of Engineering and Technology Management

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The role of R&D intensity, technical development and absorptive capacity in creating entrepreneurial wealth in high technology start-ups

David L. Deeds

Journal of Engineering and Technology Management > 2001 > 18 > 1 > 29-47

This study uses 80 newly public pharmaceutical biotechnology companies to explore the relationship between a high technology venture's R&D intensity, technical capabilities and absorptive capacity and the amount of entrepreneurial wealth created by the venture. A novel measure of absorptive capacity based on co-citation analysis of a firm's scientific publications is developed and several indicators...

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Manufacturing Advantage: Why High-Performance Work Systems Pay Off - Eileen Appelbaum, Thomas Bailey, Peter Berg, and Arne L. Kalleberg, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2000, 258 pp.

Gil Preuss, Leonard B. McKendrick

Journal of Engineering and Technology Management > 2001 > 18 > 1 > 91-93

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The accountant's contribution to product development teams - a case study

Samuel Rabino

Journal of Engineering and Technology Management > 2001 > 18 > 1 > 73-90

The new product development (NPD) literature offers mechanisms and processes that will contribute to the successful launch of new products. It is recognized that ultimately new products fail due to their lack of appeal which may manifest itself in terms of functionality, quality, cost, timing, or other factors. The organization model for NPD appears to attract particular attention in recent years...

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The financial undertow of rapid technical advance in new product development

Donald A. Hicks

Journal of Engineering and Technology Management > 2001 > 18 > 1 > 49-71

The logic of time-based competition (TBC) has unleashed a broadside of industrial dynamics whereby the accelerating pace of technical advance may well challenge the financial health of industry-leading producers. Through a series of comparative case studies and subsequent analyses of entire populations of major producers in selected industries, this paper demonstrates that the financial justification...

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The complementarity of cooperative and technological competencies: a resource-based perspective

Beverly B. Tyler

Journal of Engineering and Technology Management > 2001 > 18 > 1 > 1-27

Firms today are finding it more and more challenging to maintain a competitive advantage. This paper proposes a middle range, meso-theory that argues that valuable cooperative competencies can complement technological competencies and increase the probability of original technological innovation in dynamic and uncertain industries. Using a resource-based analysis, it is argued that above average cooperative...

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Car Launch: The Human Side Of Managing Change - George Roth and Art Kleiner, Oxford University Press, New York, 2000

Matthew W. Ford

Journal of Engineering and Technology Management > 2001 > 18 > 1 > 93-96

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Success, failure and organisational competence: a case study of the new product development process

Michael A. Lewis

Journal of Engineering and Technology Management > 2001 > 18 > 2 > 185-206

The concept of organisational competence is employed to develop a theoretical and practical critique of the new product development (NPD) process. Competence concepts seek to explain whole firm, rather than individual product success and exploring the impact of this different 'unit of analysis' suggests that traditional definitions of NPD success and failure might be inappropriate. Exploring the proposition...

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Analyzing innovation adoption using a knowledge-based approach

Shanthi Gopalakrishnan, Paul Bierly

Journal of Engineering and Technology Management > 2001 > 18 > 2 > 107-130

We propose a new typology of organizational innovation based on the integration of theories of organizational learning and theories of knowledge. The three dimensions that we use to construct our typology of innovations are: tacit-explicit, systemic-autonomous and simple-complex. We, then, analyze the impact of these different types of innovations on the method of sourcing, cost of implementation,...

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An investigation of factors affecting how engineers and scientists seek information

Claire J. Anderson, Myron Glassman, R. Bruce McAfee, Thomas Pinelli

Journal of Engineering and Technology Management > 2001 > 18 > 2 > 131-155

This study investigated how 872 US aerospace scientists and engineers select information carriers. When considering oral and written information carriers, the principle of least effort was supported with a strong preference for oral communication over written communication. In examining how the respondents select written carriers, the decision to use or not to use a written carrier was found to be...

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Development of a justification tool for advanced manufacturing technologies: system-wide benefits value analysis

Sharon M. Ordoobadi, Nancy J. Mulvaney

Journal of Engineering and Technology Management > 2001 > 18 > 2 > 157-184

Growing competition and increasing demands from customers are forcing small manufacturers to consider investments in advanced manufacturing technologies (AMTs). For many reasons, such investments are often difficult to justify by means of a traditional economic analysis alone. As a result, it is often necessary to consider the system wide benefits associated with AMTs in order to justify their adoption...

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Towards a socio-oecotechnology

Frank Heller

Journal of Engineering and Technology Management > 2001 > 18 > 3-4 > 295-312

The paper will attempt to demonstrate that within the broad ambit of the socio-technical model there is scope for development and for a degree of innovation. Two aspects of the model will be progressed and to some extent integrated. Firstly, I will argue that the joint optimisation (JtO) concept has not been elaborated and emphasised as much as it deserves and it needs to be sharply differentiated...

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Sociotechnical systems in an age of mass customization

Larry Hirschhorn, Phillip Noble, Thomas Rankin

Journal of Engineering and Technology Management > 2001 > 18 > 3-4 > 241-252

Sociotechnical systems theory (STS) emerged as a design tool for democratizing work in an age of mass production. How should STS be re-thought for the age of mass customization? Linking mass customization to the task of building a learning organization, this article examines the case of redesign of a chemical pilot plant whose purpose was to test new equipment and methods for producing new compounds...

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Generating testable socio-technical systems theory

Ann Majchrzak, Bryan Borys

Journal of Engineering and Technology Management > 2001 > 18 > 3-4 > 219-240

Suggestions for enhancements to socio-technical systems (STS) theory are offered based on a multiyear development process. First, researchers engaged in an iterative process of working with socio-technical systems (STS) and non-STS practitioners of organizational design to operationalize STS theory. Second, the operationalized theory was validated using an 86-company survey. Third, the operationalized...

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Out of machine age?: complexity, sociotechnical systems and actor network theory

William N. Kaghan, Geoffrey C. Bowker

Journal of Engineering and Technology Management > 2001 > 18 > 3-4 > 253-269

This paper compares sociotechnical systems (STS) theory and actor network theory (ANT) as developed by Latour, Callon and Law. We examine how STS and ANT can be viewed as responses to rationalist/functionalist research on large sociotechnical systems and as extensions and elaborations of pragmatist/culturalist frameworks developed in sociology and anthropology. We reexamine, from an actor network...

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Sociotechnical systems: towards an organizational learning approach

Eric Molleman, Manda Broekhuis

Journal of Engineering and Technology Management > 2001 > 18 > 3-4 > 271-294

By means of three design principles (the sociotechnical criterion, the principle of minimal critical specification and the principle of joint optimization of the technical and social system), STS as a design theory is related to four organizational performance indicators (price, quality, flexibility and innovation). As a diagnostic theory, STS helps to find contingencies between environmental demands...

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Call for papers

Journal of Engineering and Technology Management > 2001 > 18 > 3-4 > 317-318

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Beyond socio-technical systems: introduction to the special issue

Terri L. Griffith, Deborah J. Dougherty

Journal of Engineering and Technology Management > 2001 > 18 > 3-4 > 207-218

This article serves as an introductory essay to this special issue of Journal of Technology and Management. It identifies and articulates the broad themes of the five papers included in this issue. Additionally, it outlines areas where further research is likely to make considerable contributions to the field of socio-technical systems.